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27/12/2016 … There’s a needlessly complicated set-up for this comedy-science extravaganza.
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Tue 27 December 2016
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Scott Gibson: Life After Death at the Soho Theatre
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
22/12/2016 … The Edinburgh Comedy Awards did their job this summer.
Wed 21 December 2016
Art, with Tim Key, Paul Ritter and Rufus Sewell
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Old Vic, London
21/12/2016 … What is Art? Well, it’s Yasmena Reza’s remarkably enduring tragi-comedy, now being revived at the Old Vic with Tim Key, Paul Ritter and Rufus Sewell playing…
Tue 20 December 2016
30 Christmases
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Old Fire Station, Oxford
20/12/2016 … All the seasonal stories these days are about the rich, argue Jonny Donahoe & Co, citing the likes of Love Actually and Home Alone.
Thu 15 December 2016
Ricky Whittington & His Cat
Panto review by Steve Bennett at the New Diorama Theatre, London
15/12/2016 … Another week, another alternative comedy pantomime.
Fri 09 December 2016
Fleabag
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
09/12/2016 … As calling cards go, Fleabag is attention-grabbing: an audacious, hilarious, candid, compelling and heartbreaking look at the life of a very modern ‘hot mess’.
A John Kearns Christmas
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Battersea Arts Centre, London
09/12/2016 … There’s something about the ritualism of Christmas, both unwaveringly familiar yet a strange departure from normal life, that well suits John Kearns’s suburban…
Thu 08 December 2016
My Big Fat Weirdos Christmas Wedding
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Square Theatre, London
08/12/2016 … Have the Weirdos gone legit? Last year the alternative comedy collective staged their panto in promoter Bob Slayer’s half-derelict, health-and-safety-defying…